Allison Janney

Allison Janney
Date of Birth: 19 Nov 1959
Country: USA
Biography: Allison Brooks Janney is an American actress, best known for her role as C. J. Cregg on the television series The West Wing. Janney has appeared in a number of films with roles of various sizes, including the 1990s films American Beauty, The Object of My Affection, Big Night, The Impostors, Drop Dead Gorgeous, The Ice Storm, Primary Colors, 10 Things I Hate About You, and Private Parts, and the 2000s films Nurse Betty, The Hours, The Chumscrubber, How to Deal, Winter Solstice...(Wikipedia)
Total Credits at Criticker: 86 (Actor)
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American Beauty
Provoked by forbidden passions, Lester Burnham (Spacey) decides to make a few changes in his rut of a life, changes that are less midlife crisis than adolescence reborn. The freer he gets, the happier he gets, which is even more maddening to his wife, Carolyn (Bening), and daughter Jane (Birch) --especially when he turns his lustful gaze toward Jane's friend, the sultry Angela (Suvari). (Dreamworks SKG)
Big Night
Primo and Secondo are two brothers who have emigrated from Italy to open an Italian restaurant in America. Primo is the irascible and gifted chef, brilliant in his culinary genius, but determined not to squander his talent on making the routine dishes that customers expect. Secondo is the smooth front-man, trying to keep the restaurant financially afloat, despite few patrons other than a poor artist who pays with his paintings... (imdb)
The Chumscrubber
Richly layered and thematically provocative, The Chumscrubber renders a portrait of the fractured and fractious quality of life in American suburbia with crystalline precision. (Newmarket Films)
Drop Dead Gorgeous
A wickedly colorful, twisted comedy, Drop Dead Gorgeous probes the heart of a small Minnesota town where a fictional teen beauty pageant has unleashed a fury of very unladylike behavior. (New Line Cinema)
Finding Nemo
This visually stunning underwater adventure follows the comedic and eventful journeys of two fish - a father and his son Nemo - who become separated in the Great Barrier Reef. (Disney/Pixar)
The Hours
The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place; all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. (Paramount)
How to Deal
The story of 17-year-old Halley Martin (Moore), who has been convinced by the outrageous relationships around her that the whole concept of true love is vastly overrated. (New Line Cinema)
The Ice Storm
It's November 1973 in New Canaan, Connecticut. Watergate has caught up with Richard Nixon. The Beatles are recording solo albums. Wife-swapping has come to the suburbs. And, the Hood family is skidding out of control. (Fox Searchlight)
Nurse Betty
A Kansas City waitress (Renee Zellweger) with dreams of becoming a nurse becomes delusional after seeing her no-good car salesman husband (Aaron Eckhart) murdered. Becoming delusional from shock, she becomes convinced that she is the former fiancee of her soap opera idol (Greg Kinnear). What she also believes is that the soap opera is real and goes to LA to find the hospital where he works as a cardiologist... (imdb)
The Object of My Affection
George and Nina seem like the perfect couple. They share a cozy Brooklyn apartment, a taste for tuna casserole dinners, and a devotion to ballroom dancing. They love each other. There's only one hitch: George is gay. And when Nina announces she's pregnant, things get especially complicated. Vince - Nina's overbearing boyfriend and the baby's father-wants marriage. Nina wants independence. George will do anything for a little unqualified affection, but is he ready to become an unwed surrogate dad? (imdb)
Private Parts
Private Parts captures Howard at his most hilarious, in a bare-all, no-jokes-barred look at a true entertainment sensation.
Six Days Seven Nights
A dream vacation that turns into a tropical nightmare. A gruff, rough-hewn cargo pilot living in the islands, Quinn Harris (Ford) hates tourists ... though he's not above making a fast buck from a sharp-tongued New Yorker, Robin Monroe (Heche), when she's desperate for a quick flight to Tahiti. But this already uneasy relationship suddenly takes a nosedive when his weather-beaten old plane is forced down in a storm, stranding the duo. (Buena Vista)
Winter Solstice
A poignant look at the impact a woman's love and support has on a father struggling with his sons setting out to explore their independence. (Paramount Classics)
10 Things I Hate About You
A remake of the classic Shakespare play "The Taming of the Shrew.", set in a modern day highschool. (imdb)
The Cowboy Way
Two buddies and championship rodeo partners travel to New York to find their missing friend, Nacho Salazar... (imdb)
Walking and Talking
Things have been tough lately for Amelia. Her best friend moved out of the apartment, her cat got cancer... (imdb)
Julian Po
Christian Slater is a stranger who comes to a small town. The local citizens think he's up to no good... (imdb)
Miracle on 34th Street
In this new holiday "miracle", based on the 1947 film classic, a little girl discovers dreams do come true if you really believe... (imdb)
Wolf
Publisher Will Randall becomes a werewolf and has to fight to keep his job. (imdb)
Over the Hedge
A scheming raccoon fools a mismatched family of forest creatures into helping him repay a debt of food, by invading the new suburban sprawl that popped up while they were hibernating...and learns a lesson about family himself. (imdb)
Strangers with Candy
Strangers with Candy is a daring leap backwards. A prequel to the critically acclaimed Comedy Central series of the same name, it is the tale of Jerri Blank (Sedaris), a forty-seven year old ex-con, junky whore who decides to return home after thirty-two years as a runaway. (ThinkFilm)
The Associate
A film about making it on Wall Street. Prejudices are hard to break and Laurel Ayres quickly learns that in order for people to take her seriously she has to work for an older white man or be one.
Hairspray
Based on the 1988 John Waters cult classic, Hairspray is the story of Tracy Turnblad, a big girl with big hair and an even bigger heart, who has only one passion: dancing. When her dream of becoming a regular personality on "The Corny Collins Show" comes true, she wins many fans and becomes an advocate for integration. (New Line Cinema)
Juno
Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes an unusual and bizarre decision regarding her unborn child. (imdb)
Who Shot Pat?
A coming-of-age tale set in Brooklyn during the late '50s which centers around the high school life of a group of teens that have to deal with racial tensions at their interracial vocational high school. (imdb)
Piccadilly Jim
Set in the 1930s, an American with a scandalous reputation on both sides of the Atlantic must do an about-face in order to win back the woman of his dreams. (imdb)
Away We Go
A couple who is expecting their first child travel around the U.S. in order to find a perfect place to start their family. Along the way, they have misadventures and find fresh connections with an assortment of relatives and old friends who just might help them discover "home" on their own terms for the first time.
Prop 8: The Musical
A musical spoof of California's Proposition 8.
Life During Wartime
Friends, family, and lovers struggle to find love, forgiveness, and meaning in a war-torn world riddled with comedy and pathos.
Pretty Ugly People
Lucy (Missi Pyle) has always used food to escape life's problems. But when this self-titled "fat friend" lures her group of old college buddies to the Montana wilderness, she reveals a new self - skinny, beautiful and still flawed. Setting out on a journey that will change their lives forever, this heartfelt comedy reveals that the grass isn't always greener on the other side of obesity.
Our Very Own
Five teenagers in Shelbyville, Tennessee look to meet the actress Sondra Locke, who's returning to town for the local premiere of her big Hollywood movie. (imdb)
Path to Paradise
The incredible story of the events leading up to the bombing of the World Trade Center in New York and the capture of the terrorists. The amazing thing is that the FBI had an informant among the terrorists, but refused to pay him $500/week for more information. They eventually had to pay $1 million and place him in the witness protection program. A story of incompetence on all sides.
David and Lisa
Lukas Haas portays David, a withdrawn but apparent near genius, who fears being touched. Brittney Murphy plays Lisa, a young woman seemingly suffering from split personalities who speaks only in rhymes and withdraws from anyone who doesn't speak to her likewise. Meeting in the psychiatric ward, the two's eyes lock and an obvious attraction is indicated. First each must learn to approach each other in their own sphere...
First Do No Harm
Meryl Streep stars as a mother who goes to extraordinary lengths to help find treatment for her epileptic son. When insurance coverage runs out, she immerses herself in medical research in a last-ditch effort to discover a cure. She learns of a controversial diet that could reduce seizures, but she forges ahead even in the face of intense disapproval.
The Help
A look at what happens when a southern town's unspoken code of rules and behavior is shattered by three courageous women who strike up an unlikely friendship.
The Oranges
A guy falls for the daughter of a family friend, making life just a bit awkward for himself and the family. (tiff.net)
A Thousand Words
A blasé guy learns that he has only 1,000 words left to speak before he will die. (imdb)
Liberal Arts
When thirty-something Jesse is invited back to his alma mater, he falls for a young 19-year-old college student and is faced with the powerful attraction that springs up between them. (imdb)
Touchy Feely
A massage therapist is unable to do her job when stricken with a mysterious and sudden aversion to bodily contact. Meanwhile, her uptight brother's foundering dental practice receives new life when clients seek out his "healing touch." (sundance.org)
The Way, Way Back
Duncan, an introverted 14-year-old, comes into his own over the course of a comedic summer when he forms unlikely friendships with the gregarious manager of a rundown water park and the misfits who work there. (sundance.org)
Struck by Lightning
After being struck and killed by lightning, a young man recounts the way he blackmailed his fellow classmates into contributing to his literary magazine. (imdb)
Bad Words
A spelling bee loser sets out to exact revenge by finding a loophole and attempting to win as an adult. (imdb)
Tammy
After losing her job and learning that her husband has been unfaithful, a woman hits the road with her profane, hard-drinking grandmother. (imdb)
Mr. Peabody & Sherman
The time-travelling adventures of an advanced canine and his adopted son, as they endeavor to fix a time rift they created.
Trust Me
A struggling agent for child actors and former child star himself, Howard Holloway spends years losing his most talented clients to his slick, arch-nemesis Aldo Shocklee. (imdb)
Brightest Star
After the heartbreaking end of his first love, a recent college graduate sets out to win back the girl of his dreams only to discover a greater journey awaits him. (imdb)
Get on Up
A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history. (imdb)
Days and Nights
Reckless desire wreaks havoc over Memorial Day weekend as a family confronts the volatile and fragile nature of love. (imdb)
The Rewrite
An Oscar-winning writer in a slump leaves Hollywood to teach screenwriting at a college on the East Coast, where he falls for a single mom taking classes there. (imdb)
The DUFF
A high school senior instigates a social pecking order revolution after finding out that she has been labeled the DUFF (Designated Ugly Fat Friend) to her prettier more popular friends. (imdb)
Spy
Susan Cooper is an unassuming, deskbound CIA analyst, and the unsung hero behind the Agency's most dangerous missions. But when her partner falls off the grid and another top agent is compromised, she volunteers to go deep undercover to infiltrate the world of a deadly arms dealer, and prevent a global crisis. (imdb)
Minions
Minions Stuart, Kevin and Bob are recruited by Scarlet Overkill, a super-villain who, alongside her inventor husband Herb, hatches a plot to take over the world. (imdb)
The West Wing
Inside the lives of staffers in the west wing of the White House. (imdb)
Mom
Mom (2013) - TV Series
Centers on Christy, a newly sober single mom who tries to pull her life together in Napa Valley. (imdb)
Mr. Sunshine
Ben Donovan (Matthew Perry) manages The Sunshine Centre, a seconde rate sports/events arena in San Diego. A short lived quirky comedy that chronicles the daily goings-on of misfit folks working in an unorthodox job. (jalfredlee (imdb)
Binky Nelson Unpacified
The Nelsons go and rob a museum and Binky Nelson loses his pacifier while him and his family were robbing the bank. So Binky Nelson goes back to the museum to get his pacifier back. (imdb)
Tallulah
Desperate to be rid of her toddler, a dissatisfied Beverly Hills housewife hires a stranger to babysit and ends up getting much more than she bargained for. (imdb)
The Girl on the Train
In the thriller, Rachel (Blunt), who is devastated by her recent divorce, spends her daily commute fantasizing about the seemingly perfect couple who live in a house that her train passes every day, until one morning she sees something shocking happen there and becomes entangled in the mystery that unfolds. Based on Paula Hawkins' bestselling novel. (comingsoon)
Miss Peregrine\
When Jacob discovers clues to a mystery that spans different worlds and times, he finds Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. But the mystery and danger deepen as he gets to know the residents and learns about their special powers.
Sun Dogs
Following his third failed attempt to join the military, courage-obsessed misfit, Ned Chipley, takes a Marine Officer's advice to "protect the home front" a little too seriously. Determined to find his purpose in life, Ned Chipley zeroes in on a casino manager, who may or may not be an Al Qaeda mastermind. Chipley enlists the help of a young runaway named Tally Petersen; together they form the most unlikely anti-terrorism unit of post-9/11 America in SUN DOGS. (imdb)
I, Tonya
Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises among the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the sport is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes. (imdb)
A Happening of Monumental Proportions
During the course of one day, a group of students at a school in Los Angeles find themselves caught up in a plot of sex, lies and dead bodies. (imdb)
Troop Zero
In rural 1977 Georgia, a misfit girl dreams of life in outer space. When a competition offers her a chance to be recorded on NASA's Golden Record, she recruits a makeshift troop of Birdie Scouts, forging friendships that last a lifetime. (imdb)
I\
Philip Rosenthal visits foreign locales to try foods and meet new people.
Ma
A lonely woman befriends a group of teenagers and decides to let them party at her house. Just when the kids think their luck couldn't get any better, things start happening that make them question the intention of their host. (imdb)
Bad Education
The unfolding of the single largest public school embezzlement scandal in history. (imdb)
The Addams Family
An animated version of Charles Addams' series of cartoons about a peculiar, ghoulish family. (imdb)
Bombshell
A group of women decide to take on Fox News head Roger Ailes and the toxic atmosphere he presided over at the network.
Lazy Susan
A frumpy, bumbling, unmotivated woman named Susan always manages to get herself into the most ridiculous situations imaginable. One day, Susan wakes up to realize that her relationships have all tanked, her family is estranged, and she has no prospects. She decides to take charge and turn things around but finds that becoming a better woman on her own is difficult. (source: google)
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
Hollywood media mogul Harvey Weinstein becomes a catalyst for the MeToo Movement. Contains testimonials from those who knew him well such as Hillary Clinton, Emma Thompson, Heather Kerr, Ashley Judd, Rose McGowan, Uma Thurman and more! (imdb)
Breaking News in Yuba County
After her husband goes missing, Sue Buttons (Allison Janney), an under-appreciated suburban wife, gets a taste of being a local celebrity as she embarks on a city-wide search in Yuba County...
The West Wing - Season 1
The Debtors
People with various addictions meet up at the tables in Las Vegas.
The West Wing - Season 2
To Leslie
Inspired by true events. A West Texas single mother wins the lottery and squanders it just as fast, leaving behind a world of heartbreak. Years later, with her charm running out and nowhere to go, she fights to rebuild her life and find redemption. (imdb)
Lou
A storm rages. A young girl is kidnapped. Her mother teams up with the mysterious woman next door to pursue the kidnapper, a journey that tests their limits and exposes shocking secrets from their pasts. (imdb)
The People We Hate at the Wedding
Family tensions ramp up among siblings in the week leading up to their half-sister's wedding in England. (imdb)
The Creator
Against the backdrop of a war between humans and robots with artificial intelligence, a former soldier finds the secret weapon, a robot in the form of a young child.
Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love
Showcasing Carol's close friends, colleagues, and admirers for a night of musical performances and tributes. (imdb)
Palm Royale
Palm Royale (2024) - TV Series
An ambitious woman schemes to secure her seat at America's most exclusive table: Palm Beach high society circa 1969. (imdb)
Palm Royale - Season 1
Veep - Season 2
DuckTales - Season 2
Another Simple Favor
Stephanie Smothers and Emily Nelson reunite on the island of Capri, Italy, for Emily's extravagant wedding to a rich Italian businessman, which is interrupted by murder and betrayal. (imdb)
Celia
Celia (2012) - Short Film
A doctor is forced into an uncomfortable decision when her patient turns out to be the daughter of an old friend. (imdb)
Everything\
When they are unexpectedly forced to move in with an estranged relative, the Smart Family must navigate oversized dreams, identity struggles and regional theater in this warmly observant family comedy.